Welcome back. We're
talking today about fear;
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the fears that Satan holds us
captive with, and the fact that
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the Lord Jesus
came to set us free.
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He came to bring deliverance
to the fears that maybe have
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enslaved you from the
time you were a little girl.
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I don't know if you can
see in front of me here.
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I have two
plates of grape juice.
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Now you might say, What in
the world are you doing with two
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plates of grape juice?
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I have two sponges.
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They're yellow. They're hard.
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I don't know if you can
see that, but they're hard.
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If I put this one, it's a dry
sponge, into the grape juice,
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what's going to happen?
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Can you see,
it's starting to wick.
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It starts to pull
up the grape juice.
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If I push on the top,
can you see it's covering it?
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It soaks it up entirely.
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Now that turns a different
color than this sponge.
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Can you see that? This one,
instead of putting it in the
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grape juice dry, I'm
going to dunk it in the water.
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I love how sponges swell up
as you put them in the water.
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So I'm going to take this soaked
sponge; I'm pulling it out,
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and I'm going to put
it in the grape juice.
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Lets see what happens.
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Now is it changing color?
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Do you see anything happening?
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Even if I push on
the top, what happens?
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Is it changing
color? Do you know why?
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It's because the sponge is
already filled up with water.
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It was so filled up that the
grape juice couldn't penetrate.
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And I like to think of
that as when we deal with fear;
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when we deal with
those issues in our lives.
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If I am so filled up with the
Lord Jesus, Satan can't get in.
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He can't get in with those lies
that he wants to tell me about
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myself, or about other people,
or even about God Himself.
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He's not allowed access
in because I am filled up
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with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We talked today about
the keys; the steps to
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breaking free from fear.
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First we just
understand who God is.
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We learn to trust Him.
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We surrender to Him.
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We claim promises from His Word.
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We fill ourselves up with Jesus.
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We praise Him. Even
when you're lost and alone,
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even when you're afraid,
even when you're struggling.
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We fill ourselves up with
Jesus, so that that fear has no
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hold over our lives.
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I love that
about the Lord Jesus:
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what He wants to do in each
one of our hearts and lives.
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If I'm like the dry sponge,
I'm going to easily soak up
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what Satan throws at me,
what other people throw at me,
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what the world throws at me.
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But if I'm
filled up with Jesus,...
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You see that? It
didn't even change color.
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It stayed soaked
up with the water.
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For this week, I want to invite
you to share your testimony
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with someone else.
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There's power when we
share what God has done for us.
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1. There's nothing more
powerful than your own personal
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testimony of what
Jesus has done for you.
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But when you share
your personal testimony,
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its going to
reflect back on yourself.
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It's going to encourage you.
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It's going to help you on
the journey as you seek to break
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free from those fears.
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So don't feel like you have
to get up in church and preach.
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Pick one person.
Maybe it's your neighbor,
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maybe it's your girlfriend,
maybe it's your spouse.
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And share with them what
the Lord Jesus Christ in doing
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in your heart and life.
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Next week we're going to begin
several programs dealing with
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the concept of sadness.
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We all experience loss.
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We all have grief and pain.
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But how can God
turn our sorrow into joy?
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You won't want to miss it.
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Our Scripture as always
in closing is Romans 15:13.
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Now may the God of hope
fill you with all joy and peace
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in believing, that
you may abound in hope,
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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